Euro Leagues – players to watch in 2025
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
John Bennett is joined by Guillem Balague, Julien Laurens and Rafa Honigstein for the first Euro Leagues of 2025. They discuss the match they are most looking forward to and highlight players you should keep an eye on in 2025. From Omar Marmoush at Eintracht Frankfurt to the young Argentine flourishing at Como, they pick out players who could be set for a big move, those on the cusp of great things and a couple of youngsters making big strides. They also pick out something that they are looking forward to in football this year – and end the show with some predictions.
TIMECODES 0 mins: Introduction and New Year’s Resolutions 1 min: Fixtures to look forward to in 2025. 7 mins: Eintracht Frankfurt’s Omar Marmoush. 12 mins: Real Sociedad’s Martin Zubimendi. 15 mins: Stuttgart’s Angelo Stiller. 20 mins: Monaco’s Maghnes Akliouche. 25 mins: Como’s Nico Paz. 29 mins: Heidenheim’s Paul Wanner (on loan from Bayern Munich). 33 mins: Real Madrid’s Joan Martinez. 35 mins: The team discuss something that they are looking forward to seeing in football in 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to quickly tell you about some others. |
| 0:05.2 | My name's Andy Martin and I'm the editor of a team of podcast producers at the BBC in Northern Ireland. |
| 0:11.3 | It's a job I really love because we get to tell the stories that really matter to people here, |
| 0:16.3 | but which also resonate and apply to listeners around the world. |
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| 0:44.3 | On the Football Daily Podcasts, the Euroleaks with John Bennett. |
| 0:50.3 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:53.3 | Hello and welcome to the very first Euroleagues of 2025 from everyone here at Euroleagues. |
| 0:59.3 | We really hope you had an amazing Christmas. |
| 1:01.6 | Happy New Year as well. |
| 1:02.9 | You might even have had a chance to watch some football. |
| 1:06.0 | So we're entering the new year. |
| 1:07.3 | Time to start looking forward to what we're excited about in 2025 and who we are |
| 1:11.9 | excited about as well. Certainly excited about this panel. Joining me to help mark your card for |
| 1:16.8 | everything to keep across over the next 12 months. Guillain Balaget, Julian Lorenz and Raphael Honigstein. |
| 1:22.9 | Happy New Year to all of you. |
| 1:25.0 | Good year. |
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